Lassus: Masses & Motets

From a concert in S:t Jacobs church feb 20 1993.

Photo: Arvo Pärt and Gary Graden 2016.
Photographer: Staffan Engwall.

De Profundis

Berlinermesse was performed and recorded in Storkyrkan sept 24, 2015.

Cello: Filip Graden
Viola: Vidar Andersson Meilink
Organ: Andrew Canning

Photo: Arvo Pärt and Gary Graden 2016.
Photographer: Staffan Engwall.

Berlinermesse Veni Sancte Spiritus

Berlinermesse Kyrie

Berlinermesse Credo

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas - Thy Hand, Belinda... When I Am Laid

mária kmeťková - harp
pavol bereza - guitar
sisa michalidesová - composer

klaun

Les chansons des roses - Morten Lauridsen 
Lyrics: Reiner Maria Rilke
Conductor: Gary Graden
Piano: Mathias Spitzbarth

Recorded for documentation purposes by Mathias Spitzbarth the 30th of May 2013 in St Jacobs Church.
 
Lyrics in English:
1. In One Single Flower (En Une Seule Fleur)
it is rather we who did propose you fill up your chalice.
Enchanted with this contrivance, you ventured the deed.
You were rich enough to become a hundred times yourself in one single flower; 
such is the plight of one who loves -- nor did you think otherwise.

2. Against Whom, Rose (Contra Qui, Rose)
Against whom, rose, did you take on these thorns?
Was it your sheerest joy that forced you to become this armed thing?
But from whom does it protect you, this exaggerated weapon?
How many enemies have I removed from you who failed to fear it?
On the contrary, from summer through autumn,
it is you who wound the affections that they bestow upon you.

3. Drowsy in Dream (De Ton Reve Trop Plein)
Drowsy in dream, flowers aplenty within,
wet as a weeping woman, you stoop toward dawn.
Your soft strength, sleeping in vague desire, reveals the tender contour of cheek or breast.

4. The Perfect Rose (La Rose Complete)
I am so conscious of your being, perfect rose, that my mind makes no distinction between you and my heart in celebration.
I breath you in as if you were, rose, all of life itself, and I feel myself the perfect friend of such a friend.

5. So They Say (Dirait-on)
Unrestraint overwhelmed with unrestraint, fondness touching fondness... 
It's your inner-self that never ceases caressing itself, or so they say; 
caressing itself by its own nature, by its own sparkling reflection.
Thus do you forge the image of Narcissus praying, or so they say.


17. V - Dirait-on - Les Chansons des Roses - Lauridsen

Big Choral Box - Renaissance

deLassus: Missa Bell’ amfitrit' altera: vi. Agnus Dei

'Four' is a song by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm from the album 'Loon' originally released on Erased Tapes Records.

Reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).
Recorded and mixed by Francesco Donadello and Antonio Pulli at Vox-Ton Studio, Berlin. 
Mastered by Sebastian and Daniel Selke at Klingenthal Studio, Potsdam.

This rework is part of a collection of pieces by contemporary composers,
reworked and performed by CEEYS (Brueder Selke).

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four (CEEYS Rework)

Tristis est anima mea -- Roland de Lassus (c1532-1594) / The Advent Choir/ Mark Dwyer, conductor


Tristis est anima mea usque ad mortem sustinete hic et vigilate mecum: nun videbitis turbam quæ circumdabit me: Vos fugam capietis, et ego vadam immolari pro vobis.

My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; tarry ye here, and watch with me: yet a little while and ye shall see the great multitude close me in: And ye shall flee, but I shall go hence to be sacrificed for you. (Responsory II, Matins of Maundy Thursday)

2018.03.28 Tenebrae

Lassus-Tristis est anima mea / The Advent Choir

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William Byrd: Sing Joyfully unto God

Cum Dederit

Sung at the 5pm Mass at Our Lady of Refuge Church In Brooklyn, NY on July 14, 2012. 

Orlande de Lassus: Missa Bell Kyrie

Sia Furler, arranged by André van der Merwe

Stellenbosch University Choir - Angel by the Wings

Lucciola

Written and recorded over a period of more than two years, “Paraphrases” is a collection of chamber music compositions performed, recorded and layered through numerous recording sessions in a small room in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea.

Christoph Berg scores the history of eight narrow worlds, carved only from wood – violin, piano and double bass. The initial composition “Quiet times at the library” defines the tone, but the album also sees many shades; the solo piece “Poems written by an old (prepared) piano”, the crow haunted field recordings of “Interlude” and reverent remixes provided by Yasuhiko Fukuzono (aus) and P Jørgensen specially for the CD edition.

The direct intimacy of the material is a stark counterpoint to the sweeping cinematic grandeur and electronic sound manipulation of previous releases as Field Rotation, and is also the logical progression from 2011 releases ‘Acoustic Tales’ and ‘And Tomorrow I Will Sleep”; the former a tribute to literature, and the latter a paean to hibernation after exhaustion. Completed in the brief escapes allowed by gaps in graduate study, “Paraphrases” is a recontextualisation of the experience of exhaustion, written in other words.

Mastered with precise weight by Ian Hawgood, the 250 run limited edition 180gm vinyl is packaged inside heavy gatefold four panel sleeves, wrapped within an A1 double-sided poster. The package also includes a double sided 12 x 12 hand numbered print along with a hand numbered embossed letter-pressed CD with fold-out booklet featuring striking photography by Aela Labbe. Extras as always will include scent, card and download code containing audio and PDFs. The album is a treasure of both talent and soul, and the extraordinary packaging from the label and considered art design by Ian Hazeldine reflects the classic nature of the material.

Release date: 30.11.12

Pre-orders this weekend through the Facture mailing list.

www.fac-ture.co.uk

Christoph Berg - Buildings At Night

S:t Jacobs Chamber Choir pays an annual fee to STIM, the Swedish collective management organization for music creators and publishers and are thereby licenced to present our own concert recordings on the internet. 
On their behalf, STIM administers and licenses performing and mechanical rights to music and lyrics.

17. V - Dirait-on - Les Chansons des Roses - Lauridsen

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